San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York: Ray McDonald is not Ray Rice
By Dan Zinski
The world just blew up in Ray Rice’s face, and other players around the NFL are getting pelted with shrapnel.
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Every NFL player with any allegation of domestic abuse against him is now coming in for greater scrutiny in the wake of the Ray Rice tape release, and that includes San Francisco 49ers DE Ray McDonald.
But 49ers CEO Jed York assures us that the McDonald situation is not comparable to the Rice situation (via CSNBayArea).
"“Ray McDonald is not Ray Rice,” York said Tuesday morning on the KNBR Morning Show.“And as a society we have a sense of saying, ‘You didn’t do it right with Ray Rice right away, so you need to overdo it with Ray McDonald or whoever else it is.’ And I don’t believe that that’s the country we live in. I don’t think that’s a fair way to approach it. I think we have to better holistic approach. But I think you have to be very careful not to punish somebody that’s in a different situation than the last one and apply what happened in the last one to this one.”"
McDonald remains under investigation by police after being arrested Aug. 31 for allegedly hitting his pregnant fiance, leaving her with “visible injuries.”
49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh has been quoted as saying that any player found to have committed domestic abuse would have no place on the 49ers. But the Niners as an organization say they are standing behind Ray McDonald as the investigation plays out.